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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 15, 2003Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -518 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

828 
WUUS53 KDDC 152100
SVRDDC
KSC175-189-152200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIBERAL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LIBERAL AT 430 PM CDT
  WOODS AT 440 PM CDT
  CAVE AT 500 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3703 10122 3701 10085 3737 10074 3738 10116

$$

FINCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	57 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	51 min
Apr 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	66 min
Apr 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	55 min
Apr 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	59 min
Apr 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	61 min
Apr 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	54 min
Apr 15, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	51 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.